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Who can you trust when the tavern that feels like home stands among sailors, rogues and danger?
In Arthur Morrison’s The Hole in the Wall, life gathers around a waterfront public house near the Thames. A young boy grows up among its regulars, learning from sailors, landlords and rogues. Docks, ships and crowded East End streets shape the world he knows, where work and trouble arrive with the river trade.
Then crime threatens the people he cares about, and loyalty becomes more than a comforting word. What does he owe those around him, and whom should he trust? Morrison brings an observant eye to this rough company, weaving a crime story with a young person’s lessons in courage, caution and survival. The setting matters as much as the danger.
What you’ll discover
- A river full of life Step into waterfront streets where ships bring work, news and trouble to the people ashore.
- A tavern at the heart Meet the drinkers, workers and schemers whose lives gather around the Hole in the Wall.
- Growing up among rogues Follow a young boy as rough company teaches him courage, caution and the need to survive.
- The cost of loyalty Explore what loyalty demands when crime puts the people a young hero loves at risk.
- London through watchful eyes Discover Morrison’s close attention to poor riverside streets within a lively adventure of danger and trust.
Who will love it
For readers who love Victorian crime, atmospheric waterfront settings and stories of a young person finding their way among rough company, with danger and divided loyalties testing whom to trust.
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- The Thames waterfront is the true setting
- A young life begins among rough company
- Loyalty is tested by danger
- A Victorian eye for people and place
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Das Loch in der Mauer
by Arthur Morrison · 1902
On the Thames waterfront, a young person grows up among sailors and rogues, learning whom to trust amid danger.
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The Hole in the Wall is a crime novel by Arthur Morrison, published in 1902. Morrison was a writer who knew the East End of London well, and here he turns to the riverside streets near the Thames, where docks, taverns and ships shape every life.
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The Thames waterfront is the true setting
Morrison builds his novel on a real kind of place, the crowded streets beside the Thames where the river trade meets the poor neighbourhoods of the East End. Ships come and go, and the people who live nearby depend on them for work, news and trouble. The public house of the title sits in the middle of this world.
The setting is not just a backdrop. Morrison writes the way someone writes who has walked these lanes and listened to their talk. Details of the water, the wharves and the tavern give the story its weight, and the reader soon feels how the river shapes what people can do and what they fear.
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What is The Hole in the Wall about?
It is a crime novel set among the Thames waterfront and a riverside tavern. A young person growing up there meets danger, tests his loyalties and learns whom to trust in a rough but vivid East End world.
Who wrote The Hole in the Wall and when?
Arthur Morrison wrote it, and it was published in 1902. Morrison was known for realistic stories of London's East End, and this novel draws on the same knowledge of riverside and working-class life.
What does the title The Hole in the Wall mean?
It is the name of a public house on the waterfront. The tavern is the central place of the story, where the main characters meet and where much of the danger and loyalty unfolds.
The author
Arthur Morrison
1863–1945 · English novelist and journalist
Arthur Morrison (1863–1945) was an English writer and journalist. He was born in Poplar, London, and later lived in Essex and Buckinghamshire. He wrote novels and detective stories. His books include Martin Hewitt, Investigator (1894), The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897), and The Hole in the Wall (1902). He died in Chalfont St Peter.
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